UID:
almahu_9947414886302882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511625077 (ebook)
Content:
Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history came to be established. Dealing not only with major figures like Hume and Smith, there are also studies of lesser known thinkers like Andrew Fletcher, Gershom Carmichael, Lord Kames and John Millar as well as of Locke in the light of eighteenth century social theory, the intellectual culture of the University of Edinburgh in the middle of the eighteenth century and of the performance of the Scottish economy on the eve of the publication of the Wealth of Nations. While the scholarly emphasis is on the rigorous historical reconstruction of both theory and context, Wealth and Virtue directly addresses itself to modern political theorists and economists and throws light on a number of major focal points of controversy in legal and political philosophy.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Needs and justice in the Wealth of nations: an introductory essay /
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Where had the Scottish economy got to by the third quarter of the eighteenth century? /
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Gershom Carmichael and the natural jurisprudence tradition in eighteenth-century Scotland /
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The Scottish professoriate and the polite academy, 1720-46 /
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From applied theology to social analysis: the break between John Locke and the Scottish Enlightenment /
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The Scottish Enlightenment at the limits of the civic tradition /
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Adam Smith as civic moralist /
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The legal needs of a commercial society: the jurisprudence of Lord Kames /
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Cambridge paradigms and Scotch philosophers: a study of the relations between the civic humanist and the civil jurisprudential interpretation of eighteenth-century social thought /
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Adam Smith's 'enduring particular result': a political and cosmopolitan perspective /
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The 'rich country-poor country' debate in Scottish classical political economy /
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John Millar and individualism /
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Scottish echoes in eighteenth-century Italy /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521233972
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625077
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